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AMD Officially Rolls Out 1Ghz Athlon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fun-with-mega-speed dept.

spudwiser writes: "AMD has a press release on their Web page concerning shipment of the 900, 950, and 1000MHz Athlon processors. Also included are times for the live satellite interview with the CEO and VP of AMD." Check out some of the benchmarking info about the new chips as well. I wonder how Andy Grove [?] is feeling today.

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  1. "MIS"informative, perhaps? by Frac · · Score: 5
    The Athlon beats the Coppermine, clock for clock, even when the L2 cache is running at 1/3 speed.

    As you can see here, the Athlon 800 delivered a severe can of whoop-ass to the Pentium III 800 (both 133 and 100 bus speeds). And the following two points can be observed:

    1) The Athlon 800 has the same cache divider as the Athlon 1Ghz.
    2) The performance of the Athlon does not "severely lag" behind the Pentium, and in fact, it's a whole lot faster!

    expect the Athlon to significantly lag the PIII at the same speed

    Dude, either you work for Intel (FUD anyone?), or you better have some concrete information to back up your outrageous claims.